The grateful elephant, Opening, part 13, sentence 142
When you water the young trees, pull them up by the roots, every one; look at the roots; water plentifully the roots that strike deep, but sparingly the roots that do not strike deep; later on we shall have a hard time getting water.”
Who acts: you, water, roots, we · What happens: water, pull up, look, root, strike, not strike · To what, where: monkeys
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, water, roots, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 water | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 water | nsubj |
| 3 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pull | nsubj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 trees | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 trees | amod |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pull | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 trees | punct |
| 8 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pull | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 pull | compound:prt |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 roots | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 roots | det |
| 13 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pull | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 roots | appos |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 look | punct |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 pull | parataxis |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 roots | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 roots | det |
| 21 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 look | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 roots | punct |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 roots | nsubj |
| 24 | plentifully | plentifully | ADV | _ | 26 roots | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 roots | det |
| 26 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pull | obl |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 strike | nsubj |
| 28 | strike | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 roots | acl:relcl |
| 29 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 strike | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 roots | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 roots | cc |
| 32 | sparingly | sparingly | ADV | _ | 34 roots | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 roots | det |
| 34 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 roots | conj |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 strike | nsubj |
| 36 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 strike | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 strike | advmod |
| 38 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 roots | acl:relcl |
| 39 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 38 strike | advmod |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 have | punct |
| 41 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 45 have | advmod |
| 42 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 45 have | mark |
| 43 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 have | nsubj |
| 44 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 have | aux |
| 45 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pull | conj |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 time | det |
| 47 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 time | amod |
| 48 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 have | obj |
| 49 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 50 water | amod |
| 50 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 time | conj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pull | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | water | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | pull up | infinitive | water | monkeys = monkey | by the roots; the young trees nsubj | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | infinitive | at the roots | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at root=Theme | |||||
| 4 | root | water | the roots conj; plentifully property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | strike | present | the roots but the roots | deep property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not strike | present · do-support | the roots | deep property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | have | shall | we | time | late property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 8 | get | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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